Telehealth Payment Processing

Telehealth payments are card-not-present by definition. Consult-only virtual care is broadly supported, while programs that prescribe and ship medications are high-risk and prohibited on Square's card-not-present rails.

How these solutions work for telehealth & virtual care

See what each option adds to the way your business takes and tracks payments.

Recurring Billing

For telehealth & virtual care: Schedule and manage payments for remote-care memberships and scheduled session charges, including renewals and customer account balances.
  • Draft authorization language for recurring charges
  • Set up schedules and retry rules
  • Connect billing to your software
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Custom Payment Integration

For telehealth & virtual care: Connect the payment flow for virtual consultations and remote-care charges with your software and the operational records behind consultation invoices, provider balances and care appointments.
  • Scope integrations your software vendor supports
  • Build and test the connection
  • Keep sensitive data out of payment records
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Square Appointments

For telehealth & virtual care: Schedule virtual clinician consultations and follow-ups, collect appointment payments and keep staff calendars aligned.
  • Build your service menu with durations, buffers, prices and assigned staff
  • Set cancellation and prepayment policies that match your written policy
  • Turn intake, consent and policy documents into automated digital forms
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Merchant Account

For telehealth & virtual care: Arrange a processing account for virtual consultations and remote-care charges, with checkout methods matched to how customers pay.
  • Analyze your current statements and quote side by side
  • Prepare the underwriting package so approval moves quickly
  • Set up terminals, gateway and software connections
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E-commerce Payments

For telehealth & virtual care: Add online checkout for virtual consultations and remote-care charges, with order references carried through payment and fulfillment.
  • Design the checkout flow
  • Integrate with your website platform
  • Configure fraud rules
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Marketplace Payments

For telehealth & virtual care: Collect customer payments for virtual consultations and remote-care charges and allocate proceeds to independent clinicians and remote-care providers within the marketplace workflow.
  • Choose the right platform model
  • Integrate onboarding and splits
  • Set up dispute handling
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Gig Worker Payouts

For telehealth & virtual care: Pay independent clinicians and remote-care providers from approved jobs or service records, with earnings and transfer status tracked together.
  • Design the onboarding flow
  • Integrate with your scheduling or shift software
  • Set payout schedules
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Payouts

For telehealth & virtual care: Distribute amounts owed to independent clinicians and remote-care providers, with payment references matched to consultation invoices, provider balances and care appointments.
  • Map who gets paid, when and how
  • Integrate payouts with your software
  • Set up recipient onboarding
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Embedded Payments

For telehealth & virtual care: Put checkout for virtual consultations and remote-care charges inside your software, keeping payment events connected to customer and operating records.
  • Choose between referral, ISV and payfac-style models
  • Support API integration
  • Set up onboarding and risk rules
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Telehealth & Virtual Care payment questions

Start with the workflows your business needs. Options on this page include Square Appointments for Telehealth, Telehealth Credit Card Processing, Telehealth Online Payments. Roots helps compare the setup, software and processing requirements around how you operate.
Yes. Bring your current POS, checkout or billing tools and recent processing statements. We review appointments, invoices, deposits and customer billing, then plan the changes your telehealth & virtual care business needs.
Request a quote for your business. The review covers your payment mix, locations, software, hardware recommendations and implementation work. Consultations and payment reviews are free.
Bring recent payment statements, the systems you use and a record of how a customer places an order, receives a service or pays a bill. Tell us which telehealth & virtual care workflows need to improve so we can scope a practical setup.

Payments for telehealth & virtual care, set up right

Talk to our sales team about your setup, or become a partner and bring us your merchants.